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Tell me more about this app. I love trying out apps from Indie Devs

I enjoy when I fill a prescription at a local pharmacy and I immediately get a vaguely threatening email from @expressscripts.bsky.social

"We noticed you filled a prescription at a pharmacy. That's fine, you can keep doing that. It just might be $5000 next time. That's all we're saying."

It does share the data. But getting it exported in a format for me to make a CSV or an infographic is damn near impossible.

Nice app. Much easier to understand than the Stelo app and much easier to get to my data than in Apple Health. Also, Sherlocks ChatGPT Health in some respects.

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Superintelligent is one of the best new(er) podcasts to come out in recent memory. even if they did reject my name suggestion: Mike & Emily, Not a Podcast.

I have a few iOS apps that I'm not doing a lot with currently. So I decided to try to turn one into a web app.

I had to turn off the "agentic" stuff in Chrome. Gemini can't accomplish 85% of it and what it can accomplish takes 4x longer than if I do it myself.

Pushed a small update for Elaps(ing) this morning.

My first macOS app was approved. Already working on the 1st update.

I started messing around with Apple's Foundation Model and implemented it into Task(ed) — add with Natural language, Smart Suggestions (list context aware) and pre-populated suggestions are being rolled out shortly.

we wouldnt want anyone at the Gestapo to get their feelings hurt.

Hardware is Static, Software is Chaos. I'm Ready to Embrace the Boredom Software rapidly became the wild west in 2025. Boring hardware might be the only thing that keeps us sane in 2026.

New article just posted.

The Eviction of the Enthusiast The golden age of hardware is over. The era of mature rent-seeking has begun.

This past weekend, I overhauled my newsletter. Today is my first publication under the rebrand. Please join me.

Intrusive Thoughts | Geoff Silva | Substack Honest tech commentary. Celebrating the breakthroughs, dissecting the glitches, and questioning the algorithms. Click to read Intrusive Thoughts, by Geoff Silva, a Substack publication. Launched 4 mon...

When I started Low Effort, I wanted a place for casual tech talk. But lately, the tech world feels anything but casual. Between broken apps, subscription fatigue, and AI hype, I realized I needed a brand that could handle the friction.

Enter Intrusive Thoughts.

It’s a new look and a new format.

Think about it: T-Mobile is so bad that people thought they were having an outage; prompting a "wer're not down, we're just awful" text message to their customers.

Decided to make a little video showing off Yes? No? Go! I'm proud of this little app.

It's in the App Store if you're so inclided to try it out

apps.apple.com/us/app/yes-n...

Big Protein?

The macOS Tax Why I Pay to Fix My Operating System

After downloading yet another extention to give my Mac some functionality it doesn't natively have, I decided to rant about it.

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AisleWise App - App Store Download AisleWise by Geoffrey Silva on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like AisleWise.

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Task(ed) App - App Store Download Task(ed) by Geoffrey Silva on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Task(ed).

Task(ed) is now available on the App Store.

My first real app, Task(ed), will be available for download on Wednesday 11/26 at 13:00

Elapse(D) App - App Store Download Elapse(D) by Geoffrey Silva on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Elapse(D).

My new app is available in the Apple App Store

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Used BitRig to fix one of my dumb, broken apps.

Apple is giving more options for clipboard history

who says Apple doesn't innovate anymore. Best feature in a decade.

The Future of Computing will be Typed and not Spoken The first commercial Graphical User Interface (GUI) was released in 1983 with the launch of Apple’s Lisa computer.

Using Raycast in addition to the revamed Spotlight Search has opened my eyes.

Is vibe coding going to usher in an era of Slop Apps? Are we already there?

Always forget that Apple doesn't do reviews over the weekend. The suspense is killing me.

Why Upgrading My Smart Home to Matter Feels Like Punishing Myself My tech graveyard is cluttered with devices that work perfectly—but are completely useless for my current setup.

Just published a story about how upgrading my smart home to Matter feels like punishing myself. Find out why my tech graveyard is overflowing.

My 'Low Effort' Guide to Setting Up a New Phone Getting a new phone is always exciting.

Here's my take on setting up new devices.